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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#270  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#21  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgsurrealdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20222023
Current release10 R1, October 2018v1.5.0, May 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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