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DBMS > PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Riak TS

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release200520172015
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
Java
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typesno

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