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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Rackspace

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2009

2010

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Based on Windows Authentication

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