DBMS > etcd vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2014

2019

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

4.0.5, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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