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System Properties Comparison SpatiaLite vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.25
Rank	#135	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#317	Overall
	#46	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#315	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2011

2018

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

10.1.4, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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