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DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. Stardog

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.mcobject.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/nsdb.iowww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startednsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.stardog.com
DeveloperMcObjectSpotifyCirconus LLC.Stardog-Union
Initial release20012014201720172010
Current release8.2, 2021V0.10.20, January 20187.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availablenononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in Luanouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsnonoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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