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System Properties Comparison OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

www.timescale.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.oushu.com/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Oushu

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Timescale

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2013

2017

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C++

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

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

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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