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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.44
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#391  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Websitepostgis.netswaydb.simer.auyanza.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSimer PlahaYanza
Initial release200520182015
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCScala
Server operating systemsWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Kotlin
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
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 PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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