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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release200220172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320141987
Current release4.0V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++qScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonorights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InfinityDBIRONdbKdbSpark SQLTransbase
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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