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

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.snowflake.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeoSpockSnowflake Computing Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release201320142011
Current release2.0, September 20192.7.6, April 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptGoC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
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
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationBased on Windows Authentication
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GeoSpockInfluxDBSnowflakeVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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