DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google BigQuery vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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)

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

yes

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