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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. SiriDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
postgis.netravendb.netsiridb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.databend.compostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsdocs.siridb.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDatabend LabsHibernating RhinosCesbitTimescale
Initial release20212005201020172017
Current release1.0.59, April 20233.4.2, February 20245.4, July 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustCC#CC
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoNumeric datanumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)noyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per databasesimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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