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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

postgis.net

quasar.ai

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Initial release

2005

2009

2020

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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