DBMS > KeyDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

machbase.com

postgis.net

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

machbase.com/dbms

postgis.net/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Machbase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2019

2013

2005

2018

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Oh, snap! Snap snaps up database developer KeyDB
12 May 2022, TechCrunch

Garnet–open-source faster cache-store speeds up applications, services
18 March 2024, Microsoft

Snap Acquires KeyDB for Open-Source Services
17 May 2022, XR Today

Dragonfly 1.0 Released For What Claims To Be The World's Fastest In-Memory Data Store
20 March 2023, Phoronix

Microsoft open-sources Garnet cache-store -- a Redis rival?
19 March 2024, The Stack

provided by Google News

How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

TerminusDB Takes on Data Collaboration with a git-Like Approach
1 December 2020, The New Stack

Trinity College spinout TerminusDB secures €3.6m in investment
15 March 2021, The Irish Times

[MCR2030-CAMS-ARISE-UNDRR Webinar] Preventing cascading failures of critical assets: Using the Open-Source ...
12 April 2022, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Irish start-ups received €28m from Enterprise Ireland in 2021
7 April 2022, SiliconRepublic.com

provided by Google News

Share this page