DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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