DBMS > PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

postgis.net

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2005

2020

2008

2018

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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