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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. OpenQM

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Exasol

Spotify

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2000

2014

2017

1991

1993

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.7

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
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

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

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