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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. TigerGraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. TigerGraph vs. Vitess

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sadasengine.comwww.tigergraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.tigergraph.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20052009200620172013
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 20228.015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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