DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Exasol

Google

Hazelcast

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

2010

2008

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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