DBMS > PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

postgis.net

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.timescale.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

docs.timescale.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

quasardb

SAP

Timescale

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2005

2009

2010

2017

2018

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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