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Name

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

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

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

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Circonus LLC.

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2013

2009

2017

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.10.0, March 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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