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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

prometheus.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

2008

2011

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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