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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational 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

duckdb.org/docs

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Rackspace

CCRi and others

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

2001

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

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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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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