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DBMS > Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperActian CorporationSiteWhere
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201320052010
Current release11.2, May 20221.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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