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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.tigergraph.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperPerconaSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20152005201320172017
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20173.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, 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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONproprietary protocol using JSONGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptuser defined functionsJavaScriptyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
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.yes infovia In-Memory Enginenononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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