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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteblueflood.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgquestdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationquestdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperRackspaceMicrosoftMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology IncRocket Software
Initial release20132015200420141985
Current releaseV1Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID for single-table writesACID infoconfigurable
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.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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BluefloodMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMonetDBQuestDBUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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