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DBMS > NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB

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NameNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#388  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitensdb.iopostgis.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
Developer8Kdata
Initial release201720052016
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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