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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceCirconus LLC.GoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201720112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.23, February 202110 R1, October 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++CErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnononoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnononoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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