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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Rackspace

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CCRi and others

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

Initial release

2013

2004

2014

2017

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.0.0, May 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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Typical application scenarios

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