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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. Valentina Server

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Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/google/leveldb

www.snowflake.com

splicemachine.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

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

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splice Machine

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

1999

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.1, March 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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