DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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