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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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 CPUsMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comwww.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comdocs.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.KineticaSingleStore Inc.Transaction Software GmbHQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20172012201319872009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 20218.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infohash partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IRONdbKineticaSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTransbaseYaacomo
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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