DBMS > PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Simer Plaha

Ultipa

Initial release

2005

2018

2019

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

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