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System Properties Comparison SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

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NameSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of SQLiteAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlessandro FurieriSimer Plaha
Initial release20082018
Current release5.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno
Supported programming languagesJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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