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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Well established RDBMS

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

1999

Current release

11.2, May 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
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.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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