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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Trafodion vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

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

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

postgis.net

trafodion.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Rocket Software

Initial release

2005

2014

1985

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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