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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

blueflood.io

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood/wiki

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

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2014

Current release

3.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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