DBMS > Blueflood vs. JanusGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. JanusGraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

janusgraph.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.janusgraph.org

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

2014

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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