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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS vs. Titan

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2005201420152012
Current release14, December 20215.0.1, July 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScalaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noErlangyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layerShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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