DBMS > BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2005

2013

2016

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

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