DBMS > Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Primary database model

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	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Huawei and openGemini community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2023

2022

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

Administrators and common users accounts

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

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