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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperExasolGigaspaces TechnologiesCirconus LLC.
Initial release2000200020172015
Current release15.5, September 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data only
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnono

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