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System Properties Comparison RisingWave vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.timescale.com

Developer

RisingWave Labs

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Timescale

Initial release

2022

2013

2017

Current release

1.2, September 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

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

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

JavaScript

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

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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