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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. YugabyteDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCirconus LLC.Tobias OetikerYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2000201719992017
Current release15.5, September 2020V0.10.20, January 20181.8.0, 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data onlyyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
GigaSpacesIRONdbRRDtoolYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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