DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Alachisoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2014

2005

1992

2016

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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