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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GreptimeDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

greptime.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.greptime.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Greptime Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2022

1984

1992

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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