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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.kinetica.comrockset.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceKineticaRocksetApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132012201920142011
Current release7.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic shardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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