DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph

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Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
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	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
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	#57	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

boilerbay.com

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2013

2010

2005

2002

2017

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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