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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgquasar.airdf4j.orgwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSquasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20132009200420172018
Current release3.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaCGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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