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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle vs. OushuDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

FatCloud

Oracle

Oushu

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

1980

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

23c, September 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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