DBMS > Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. Memcached vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. Memcached vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.h2gis.org

www.memcached.org

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

CNRS

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2003

1992

2014

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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