DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1703

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

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