DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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