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DBMS > Blueflood vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.iohbase.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHughes TechnologiesSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132008199420102006
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.4, October 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyespredefined schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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