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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.TimescaleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20051992201320172011
Current release3.4.2, February 202417, July 20152.15.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
TriggersyesyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replicationSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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