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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

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

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2011

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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