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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

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

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Circonus LLC.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sybase, SAP

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2009

1993

2018

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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