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DBMS > Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/google.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperRackspaceCirconus LLC.GoogleSTS Soft SC
Initial release2013201720142011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.1.12, February 20174.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariWindows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API.NET Client 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
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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