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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtswww.pinecone.iopostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupPinecone Systems, Incquasardb
Initial release2014201920052009
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaPython.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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