DBMS > Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2005

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Round robin

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

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