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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

postgis.net

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2015

2010

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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