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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Hazelcast

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

optimistic locking

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

Role-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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