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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. etcd vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. etcd vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed reliable key-value storeA widely adopted in-memory data gridWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.ehcache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hazelcast.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
hazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperRackspaceTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013200920082008
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.4, August 20195.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJCachegRPC
JSON over HTTP
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, watching key changesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby using Terracotta ServerUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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