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DBMS > PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.TimescaleTranswarp
Initial release2005201720132017
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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