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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Tarantool vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tarantool.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationVKTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20052014200820091987
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.10.0, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolTinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Groovy
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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