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PostGIS vs PostgREST: What are the differences?

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  1. Data Manipulation: PostGIS is a spatial extension for PostgreSQL that adds support for geographic objects, allowing users to easily store, manipulate, and analyze spatial data, while PostgREST is a standalone web server that automatically generates a REST API from a PostgreSQL database, enabling users to access and interact with their data using HTTP protocols.

  2. Querying: PostGIS provides advanced geospatial functions and indexing capabilities for efficient querying and analysis of geographic data, whereas PostgREST simplifies the querying process by automatically generating and handling SQL queries based on HTTP requests without the need for manual coding.

  3. API Development: PostGIS focuses on providing spatial data management capabilities within a PostgreSQL database, while PostgREST specifically targets developers who want to expose their PostgreSQL data as RESTful APIs with minimal effort.

  4. Security Features: PostGIS does not have built-in security features specifically for handling API requests, whereas PostgREST offers authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure access to the generated REST API endpoints and protect sensitive data stored in the PostgreSQL database.

  5. Performance Optimization: PostGIS optimizes spatial queries and indexing for geographic data processing, while PostgREST is designed for high-performance API generation from PostgreSQL databases and may require additional configuration for optimizing query execution and response times.

  6. Community Support: PostGIS has a large and active community of users and developers who contribute to ongoing development and support, while PostgREST has a smaller but dedicated community focused on improving the functionality and usability of the tool for API development.

In Summary, PostGIS is an extension for handling spatial data in PostgreSQL, while PostgREST is a tool for automatically generating REST APIs from PostgreSQL databases with a focus on simplifying API development and data access.
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    De facto GIS in SQL
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    Good Documentation
  • 4
    Fast, simple, powerful REST APIs from vanilla Postgres
  • 2
    JWT authentication
  • 1
    Very fast
  • 1
    Declarative role based security at the data layer

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What is PostGIS?

PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

What is PostgREST?

PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch.

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