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DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. PostgreSQL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. PostgreSQL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitemachbase.comwww.postgresql.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.mireo.com/­spacetimeyaacomo.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmswww.postgresql.org/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperMachbasePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerinformationpartners gmbhMireoQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20131989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL201520202009
Current releaseV8.0, August 202316.3, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashnoneFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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