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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.netpouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperOracleApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20112005201220132017
Current release23.3, December 20233.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesnoyes 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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.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 functionsView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cachenoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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