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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperExasolCirconus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SiteWhereYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20002017199920102001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP RESTPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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