DBMS > Badger vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

postgis.net/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

TempoIQ

Timescale

Initial release

2017

1991

2005

2012

2017

Current release

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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