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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. JanusGraph vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

janusgraph.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.janusgraph.org

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Embarcadero

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2014

1984

2017

2000

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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