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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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