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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­spannerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperRackspaceGoogleHypertable Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseSplice Machine
Initial release20132017200919942014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201616.1 SPS04, April 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes infoJava
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor on file system levelSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowyesHadoop integrationYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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