DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

Developer

Exasol

Google

Circonus LLC.

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2010

2017

2011

2018

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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