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DBMS > etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Infobright

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebolt.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.firebolt.iographite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Chris DavisIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release202020061983 infohost version2005
Current release3.4, August 201912.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersyes, watching key changesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layernoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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