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DBMS > Graphite vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpostgis.netrdf4j.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iopostgis.net/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TempoIQ
Initial release2006200520042012
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnosimple authentication-based access control

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