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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2 vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2005

2012

2006

2018

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Journaling Streams

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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