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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA 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 queriesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitepostgis.netdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2005202020192009
Current release3.4.2, February 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, 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 SQLyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all dataSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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