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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Well established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperExasolActian CorporationCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedSimer Plaha
Initial release20001974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720172018
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno
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EXASOLIngresIRONdbObjectBoxSwayDB
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