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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopentsdb.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.KineticaMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172012199220112019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C++JavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
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++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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