DBMS > Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

couchdb.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2005

2015

1995

1992

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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