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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2013

2014

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

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

yes

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