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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. IRONdb vs. MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#351  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score400.93
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score19.62
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.27
Rank#110  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.mongodb.compostgis.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MongoDB, IncTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20232017200920052019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.0.5, January 20243.4.2, February 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)nono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL InterfaceyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaJavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlyyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.yes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
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chDBIRONdbMongoDBPostGISTDengine
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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