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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 simplicityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/google.github.io/­lovefieldspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.GoogleApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2017201420142011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.1.12, February 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client 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
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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