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DBMS > PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sequoiadb.comsql.js.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
Developerinformationpartners gmbhSequoiadb Ltd.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescale
Initial release20052015201320122017
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, 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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
proprietary protocol using JSONJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverJavaScriptnouser 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 PostgreSQLnoneShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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