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DBMS > MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.compostgis.netquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardbSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release19842005200920132017
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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