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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Citus vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  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 CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comwww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperRackspaceGigaspaces TechnologiesHypertable Inc.
Initial release2013201020002009
Current release8.1, December 201815.5, September 20200.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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