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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

postgis.net

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2018

2014

2015

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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