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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitepostgis.netquasar.aitrafodion.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPRocket Software
Initial release20052009200920141985
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangC++, JavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyesoptional
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 infowith tagsrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoErlangJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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