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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alex Kashirin

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2005

2020

2012

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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