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DBMS > PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented 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
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2005201719872011
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
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 systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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