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DBMS > Graphite vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iopostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperChris Davisinformationpartners gmbhSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20062005201520132017
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, 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.noyesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writerDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
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 controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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