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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitepostgis.netsurrealdb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSurrealDB LtdMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2005202220202019
Current release3.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCRustC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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