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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Spark SQL vs. TigerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpark 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 DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20052009201420172014
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCErlangScalaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecuritynoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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