DBMS > IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2004

2013

2018

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.6, May 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.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
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

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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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