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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Rackspace

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

quasardb

Initial release

2013

2001

2010

2009

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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