DBMS > Blueflood vs. DataFS vs. gStore vs. Ingres vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. DataFS vs. gStore vs. Ingres vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

newdatabase.com

en.gstore.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Mobiland AG

Actian Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2018

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1992

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.2, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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