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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.h2gis.org

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Rackspace

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

1998

2009

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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