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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. Speedb

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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 simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquestdb.iordf4j.orgwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Speedb
Initial release20172012201420042020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyesno
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 indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame 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
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonoyesno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbMicrosoft Azure Table StorageQuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSpeedb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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