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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.62
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
Initial release20052015
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data only
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.yesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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