DBMS > Blueflood vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2011

2015

2010

2018

Current release

24.1, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

predefined scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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