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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TDengine

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 simplicityRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20172015200120142019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 20233.1, March 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnonoyesyes
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 indexesnorestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP 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
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaErlangnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes
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Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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