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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. RisingWave vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. RisingWave vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 simplicityA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.risingwave.com/­databasespark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Circonus LLC.RisingWave LabsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20022017202220142014
Current release4.0V0.10.20, January 20181.2, September 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++RustScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
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, histogramsStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-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 APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaUDFs in Python or JavanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlnonoUsers and Rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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