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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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Name

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

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2023

2010

2017

2004

Current release

15585

1.0, March 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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 query language

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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