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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#29	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2013

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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 using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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