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DBMS > openGauss vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison openGauss vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. TypeDB

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NameopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
postgis.netrockset.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
postgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communityRocksetVaticle
Initial release2019200520192016
Current release3.0, March 20223.4.2, February 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL 2011yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic shardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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openGaussPostGISRocksetTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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