DBMS > Blueflood vs. Databend vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Databend vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.databend.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Databend Labs

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2021

2010

2014

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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