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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Well established RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

1992

Current release

11.2, May 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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