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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.firebolt.iowww.gbase.cnwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.firebolt.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceFirebolt Analytics Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release2013202020042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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