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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. H2 vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.citusdata.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2010

2005

2006

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.2.220, July 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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