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DBMS > PostGIS vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. TypeDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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 modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVaticle
Initial release2005201820142016
Current release3.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCProlog, RustC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph PartitioningShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streamsyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
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 persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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PostGISTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTrafodionTypeDB 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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