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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. YDB

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netprometheus.ioquestdb.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QuestDB Technology IncYandex
Initial release19912005201520142019
Current release5.73.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesyesno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID
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.yesnonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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