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

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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2001

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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

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