DBMS > BigObject vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

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

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.keydb.dev

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2017

2019

2013

1992

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in Lua

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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