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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.compostgis.netrdf4j.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcespostgis.net/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.STS Soft SC
Initial release2000200520042011
Current release3.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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