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DBMS > Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupQdrantSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20142005202120132017
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRustC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes 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 indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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