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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.memcached.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2003

2014

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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