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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SingleStore

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandradata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iohive.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20132012201220042013
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.1, August 20218.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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