DBMS > Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

postgis.net

prometheus.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

IBM

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2005

2015

1999

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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