DBMS > Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

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

Multi-source replication
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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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