DBMS > AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.0.5, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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