DBMS > Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.greenplum.org

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Rackspace

Softmotions

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2012

2005

2016

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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