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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-based data warehousing serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.11
Rank#350  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.61
Rank#156  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201420142014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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