DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Codenotary

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2020

2010

2014

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data 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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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

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