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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
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Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Score3.11
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release2005201820192017
Current release3.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCProlog, RustClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph PartitioningnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streamsyes, each node contains all dataBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access controlyes
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PostGISTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistXTDB infoformerly named CruxYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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