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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational 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
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netquasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperquasardbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2005200920091987
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024Transbase 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 licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APITinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDBoptionalyes
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 trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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