DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.exasol.com

geospock.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Exasol

GeoSpock

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

2015

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL 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

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

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

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