DBMS > PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Alex Kashirin

Timescale

Initial release

2005

2013

2012

2020

2017

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

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

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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