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DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperRackspaceGoogleHypertable Inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20132013201720091994
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201616.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor on file system levelSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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