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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOracleApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20112005201420172014
Current release23.3, December 20233.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cachenononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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