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

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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 Cassandra

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.gigaspaces.com

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

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

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

Developer

Rackspace

Gigaspaces Technologies

Circonus LLC.

LeanXcale

Initial release

2013

2000

2017

2015

Current release

15.5, September 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
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

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Role-based access control

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