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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Lovefield

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kinetica.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Altibase

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Google

Initial release

1999

2017

2012

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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