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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitepostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSiteWhereTempoIQ
Initial release200520102012
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple authentication-based access control

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