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DBMS > PostgreSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. Titan vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison PostgreSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. Titan vs. Warp 10

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NamePostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.org/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerAlessandro FurieriSQream TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStaxSenX
Initial release1989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2008201720122015
Current release16.3, May 20245.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions in Pythonyesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodespartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnonenoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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