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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperRackspaceIBMSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP infoformerly SybaseScyllaDB
Initial release20132014200419922015
Current release17, July 2015ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BluefloodIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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