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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. RDF4J

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20132010201420082004
Current release8.1, December 20182.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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