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DBMS > etcd vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Qdrant vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. Qdrant vs. Vitess

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
boilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
vitess.io
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedqdrant.tech/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.QdrantThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2002201720212013
Current release3.4, August 20194.0V0.10.20, January 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++RustGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes, watching key changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoKey-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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