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DBMS > Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Tkrzw

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA 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.A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cndbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2020201719992020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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