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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen vs. Ultipa

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.teradata.comterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1www.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperTeradataDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Ultipa
Initial release20051984201819982019
Current release3.4.2, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoHashingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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