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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP IQ

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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

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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

docs.keydb.dev

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Rackspace

Circonus LLC.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

LeanXcale

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2017

2019

2015

1994

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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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