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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SingleStore vs. Sqrrl vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SingleStore vs. Sqrrl vs. TDengine

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.singlestore.comsqrrl.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperSingleStore Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2005201320122019
Current release3.4.2, February 20248.5, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infohash partitioningSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)yes
More information provided by the system vendor
PostGISSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSqrrlTDengine
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStoreā€™s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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