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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogriddb.netwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.griddb.netdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperRackspaceToshiba CorporationEmbarcaderoSAP infoformerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132013198419922012
Current release5.1, August 2022InterBase 2020, December 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodGridDBInterbaseSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSQL.JS
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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