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DBMS > PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20052017201420172014
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file systemnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typesnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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