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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2014

2005

2017

2008

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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