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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. JaguarDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

postgis.net/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

DataJaguar, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2010

2015

2005

2009

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

rights management via user accounts

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

users and table-level permissions

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