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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score44.28
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comsolr.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release2005201320062017
Current release3.4.2, February 20249.5.0, February 20242.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnumerics, 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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptJava pluginsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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