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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netprometheus.iosqream.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperSQream TechnologiesOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2005201520171998
Current release3.4.2, February 20242022.1.6, December 2022Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in PythonPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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