DBMS > Blueflood vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.gbase.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2004

2013

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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