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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. RDF4J vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kinetica.com

machbase.com

rdf4j.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

machbase.com/dbms

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

Machbase

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

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2004

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

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