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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

postgis.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2005

2016

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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