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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
quasar.ai
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.keydb.devdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.quasardb
Initial release2012201720192009
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in LuaLuano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenosimple password-based access control and ACLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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