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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 WhisperCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperRackspaceChris DavisSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release20132006201420142017
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesnonenone
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 integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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