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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsObject-relational database and reports serverA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.gigaspaces.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.valentina-db.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRackspaceGigaspaces TechnologiesSAP infoformerly SybaseParadigma SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132000199219992011
Current release15.5, September 202017, July 20155.7.57.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesno
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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