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DBMS > Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009200520192014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.4.2, February 20243.0, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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