DBMS > Blueflood vs. DuckDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. DuckDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

duckdb.org/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Rackspace

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2018

2013

2014

Current release

0.10, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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