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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitecachelot.iogeospock.comquasar.aiwww.timescale.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpockquasardbTimescaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2015200920172001
Current release2.0, September 20193.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptC++CC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolJDBCHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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