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DBMS > PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitepostgis.netwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperTimescaleJuxt Ltd.Yandex
Initial release2005201720192023
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.13.0, November 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCClojureC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxlimited SQL, making use of Apache CalciteYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, each node contains all datayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists

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