DBMS > PostGIS vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

postgis.net

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2014

2013

1992

2018

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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