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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. TimesTen vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. TimesTen vs. YTsaurus

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn 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.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitepostgis.netprometheus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Yandex
Initial release2005201519982023
Current release3.4.2, February 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric 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.yesno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIODBC
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
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
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 persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
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-standardAccess Control Lists

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