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DBMS > PostGIS vs. RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sequoiadb.comsqream.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.sqream.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperTobias OetikerSequoiadb Ltd.SQream TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20051999201320172017
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 20222022.1.6, December 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
proprietary protocol using JSON.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJavaScriptuser defined functions in Pythonuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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