DBMS > Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Raima Database Manager

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

cratedb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

raima.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cratedb.com/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.raima.com

Developer

Rackspace

Crate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

1984

Current release

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

limited functionality with using 'rules'

JavaScript

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

rights management via user accounts

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metrics

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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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8 October 2020

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1 October 2020

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