DBMS > Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

Initial release

2013

2005

1995

2010

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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