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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#283  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperRackspaceDatabricksCirconus LLC.LeanXcale
Initial release2013201320172015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in Lua
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono
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