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System Properties Comparison SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of SQLite

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2018

1987

2012

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

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

yes

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