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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oxford Semantic Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2005

2017

2018

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

replication via a shared file system

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Roles, resources, and access types

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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