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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. etcd vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb

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Name

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Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed reliable key-value store

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2013

2010

2017

Current release

3.4, August 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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