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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. TempoIQ

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NameImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
postgis.netquasar.aisphinxsearch.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.immudb.iopostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCodenotaryquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release20202005200920012012
Current release1.2.3, April 20223.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like syntaxyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP APIProprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnosimple authentication-based access control

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