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DBMS > PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB vs. YDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score19.96
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score3.61
Rank#72  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.scylladb.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperScyllaDBYandex
Initial release200520152019
Current release3.4.2, February 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, Luano
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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PostGISScyllaDBYDB
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20 February 2024

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14 November 2023

ScyllaDB Raises $43M to Take on MongoDB at Scale, Push Database Performance to New Levels
17 October 2023

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