DBMS > Blueflood vs. GreptimeDB vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GreptimeDB vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.greptime.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Greptime Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2022

2015

2012

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

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

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

rights management via user accounts

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

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