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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepostgis.netquestdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepostgis.net/­documentationquestdb.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperOracleQuestDB Technology IncApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072005201420142011
Current release14.1, August 20233.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScalaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurableACIDACID for single-table writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono
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Oracle CoherencePostGISQuestDBSpark SQLSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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