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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Citus vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.citusdata.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2013

2010

2001

1984

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.7.2, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
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, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

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

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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