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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitepostgis.netterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release200520182014
Current release3.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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