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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

questdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Circonus LLC.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

1999

2014

2020

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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