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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceChris DavisObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132006201720142014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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