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DBMS > PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Tigris

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netpouchdb.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tigergraph.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2005201220172022
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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