DBMS > BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.enterprisedb.com

geospock.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

GeoSpock

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

Current release

14, December 2021

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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

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