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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

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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

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.monetdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

MonetDB BV

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2004

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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