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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL vs. TDengine vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NameSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTime Series DBMS and big data platformA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tdengine.comdocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos DataTimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132014201920171987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.0, August 20222.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaCCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoringyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataDocument is locked during a transactionnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
SequoiadbSpark SQLTDengineTimescaleDBTransbase
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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