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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. PostgreSQL vs. RocksDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Relational DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score644.36
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.postgresql.orgrocksdb.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.postgresql.org/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.timescale.com
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerFacebook, Inc.Timescale
Initial release200520141989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20132017
Current release14, December 20215.0.1, July 202416.4, August 20249.4.0, June 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, 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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layerpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashhorizontal partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layernoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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