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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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.

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

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Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

boilerbay.com

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2002

2017

2020

2014

Current release

4.0

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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