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DBMS > KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013200520191987
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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