DBMS > Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.exasol.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Rackspace

Exasol

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2000

2018

2014

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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

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