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DBMS > Dolt vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion vs. YDB

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
postgis.netwww.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.compostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncTimescaleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYandex
Initial release20182005201720142019
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCCC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, via HBaseActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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