DBMS > Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Rackspace

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2013

1984

2014

2010

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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