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DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperRackspaceExasolGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20132000201220171993
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luayes
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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