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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HBase vs. KeyDB vs. Riak KV vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

hbase.apache.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.keydb.dev

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

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2008

2019

2009

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD-3

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

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

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