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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. KeyDB vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Circonus LLC.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2005

2017

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Lua

user defined functions

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

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control and ACL

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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