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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#334	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.40
Rank	#135	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

quasar.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

quasardb

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2009

2008

Current release

3.13.3, April 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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