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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperRackspaceKineticaMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20132012201420102006
Current release7.1, August 2021V128.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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