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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2014

2005

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

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