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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ehcache.org

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.greenplum.org

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Rackspace

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

2005

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

7.0.0, September 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

simple password-based access control

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