DBMS > Cassandra vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2008

1991

2005

2013

2012

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

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 for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

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