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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Ultipa

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

geospock.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

GeoSpock

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2013

2014

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

Numeric data and Strings

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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