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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitepostgis.netquasar.airocksdb.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperquasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2005200920152013
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20229.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynono
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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