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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.gridgain.compostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperRackspaceGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardb
Initial release2013200720052009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes (replicated cache)yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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