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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iopostgis.netdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualpostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2010200520202019
Current release3.4.2, February 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CCC++Clojure
Server operating systems.NETLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityPostGISTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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