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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122018
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
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-standardnono

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