DBMS > H2GIS vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

2014

2009

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

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