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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.teradata.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2005201519842018
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding infoHashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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