DBMS > Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tigris

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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)

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Softmotions

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

1995

1992

2022

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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