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

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLTime Series DBMS and big data platformA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.tdengine.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.TDEngine, previously Taos DataTimescale
Initial release2005201320192017
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0, August 20222.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes, via alarm monitoringyes
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 methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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PostGISSequoiadbTDengineTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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