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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Rackspace

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

2001

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on storage layer

none

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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