DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aiterminusdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.timescale.com
DeveloperGeoSpockMicrosoftquasardbDataChemist Ltd.Timescale
Initial release2016200920182017
Current release2.0, September 20193.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++C++Prolog, RustC
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, 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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GeoSpockMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseQuasardbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTimescaleDB
Recent citations in the news

How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

nChain leads investment round in extreme-scale data firm GeoSpock
2 October 2020, CoinGeek

Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial General Intelligence Robotics: Q&A with Steve Marsh, GeoSpock
16 May 2018, ExchangeWire

GeoSpock’s extreme-scale data mission in $5.4m funding boost
8 October 2020, Cambridge Independent

UK-based database GeoSpock bags $5.4m, to expand into
6 October 2020, Tech in Asia

provided by Google News

Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services
18 October 2023, AWS Blog

Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform
24 September 2023, DataScientest

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates
22 March 2024, azure.microsoft.com

Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024
26 March 2024, eWeek

Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities
10 November 2023, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Record quasar is most luminous object in the universe
20 February 2024, EarthSky

Quasar Partners with PTC to Empower IoT Customers with High-Performance Data Solutions
11 September 2023, Datanami

QUASAR yacht (Bilgin, 46.8m, 2016)
3 July 2023, Boat International

Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one ...
2 February 2024, waseda.jp

QuestDB gets $12M Series A funding amid growing interest in time-series databases
3 November 2021, SiliconANGLE News

provided by Google News

How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

TerminusDB Takes on Data Collaboration with a git-Like Approach
1 December 2020, The New Stack

Trinity College spinout TerminusDB secures €3.6m in investment
15 March 2021, The Irish Times

[MCR2030-CAMS-ARISE-UNDRR Webinar] Preventing cascading failures of critical assets: Using the Open-Source ...
12 April 2022, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Irish start-ups received €28m from Enterprise Ireland in 2021
7 April 2022, SiliconRepublic.com

provided by Google News

TimescaleDB Is a Vector Database Now, Too
25 September 2023, Datanami

Timescale Acquires PopSQL to Bring a Modern, Collaborative SQL GUI to PostgreSQL Developers
4 April 2024, PR Newswire

Power IoT and time-series workloads with TimescaleDB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
18 March 2019, azure.microsoft.com

Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round, Marking the Explosive Rise of Time-Series Data
22 February 2022, Business Wire

TimescaleDB goes distributed; implements ‘Chunking’ over ‘Sharding’ for scaling-out
22 August 2019, Packt Hub

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here