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DBMS > Blueflood vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWidely used open source RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.mysql.comwww.snowflake.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidev.mysql.com/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRackspaceOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20131995201420142011
Current release8.4.0, April 20242.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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