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DBMS > Blueflood vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. Vitess

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iohbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsolr.apache.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20132008201020062013
Current release2.3.4, January 20219.5.0, February 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava pluginsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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