DBMS > PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

postgis.net

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.timescale.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Mireo

STS Soft SC

Timescale

8Kdata

Initial release

2005

2020

2011

2017

2016

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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