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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncCirconus LLC.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2015201720052020
Current release3.1.0, July 2020V0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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