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System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

postgis.net

www.timescale.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.timescale.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Timescale

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2017

2023

2019

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.13.0, November 2023

1.0, May 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Vector, Numeric and String

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

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

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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