DBMS > Blueflood vs. Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

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