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DBMS > Blueflood vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. JaguarDB vs. Kdb vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance Time Series DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.jaguardb.comkx.commaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlcode.kx.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceDataJaguar, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201320152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319841992
Current release3.3 July 20233.6, May 20187.9.10.12, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesqC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (q)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodJaguarDBKdbMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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