DBMS > Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	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.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

CNRS

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

1992

2014

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Erlang

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

links between data sets can be stored

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 Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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