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DBMS > Blueflood vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SwayDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandramSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aiswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperRackspaceHughes TechnologiesquasardbSimer Plaha
Initial release201319942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092018
Current release4.4, October 202110 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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