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DBMS > BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Sqrrl vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Sqrrl vs. SwayDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sqrrl.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.ExasolCirconus LLC.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20152000201720122018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyes, in Luanono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)no

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