DBMS > OpenQM vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spatial extension of SQLite

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.pinecone.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Timescale

Initial release

1993

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2008

2017

Current release

3.4-12

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

String, Number, Boolean

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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