DBMS > AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

origodb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Timescale

Initial release

2016

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.0.5, February 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

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

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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