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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Databend vs. Ingres vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Databend vs. Ingres vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityWell established RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.databend.comdocs.actian.com/­ingreshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.timescale.com
DeveloperRackspaceDatabend LabsActian CorporationSAP infoformerly SybaseTimescale
Initial release201320211974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19922017
Current release1.0.59, April 202311.2, May 202217, July 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hosted
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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