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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. Transbase

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netquasar.aiwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperquasardbOxford Semantic TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2005200920171987
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20246.0, Septermber 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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