DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cassandra.apache.org

geospock.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2016

2008

2016

1985

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.3, July 2023

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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