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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridGain vs. Hive vs. Quasardb vs. VelocityDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignitedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.gridgain.comhive.apache.orgquasar.aivelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.quasar.ai/­mastervelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRackspaceGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookquasardbVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132007201220092011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes (replicated cache)selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailBased on Windows Authentication

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