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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 simplicityCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.scylladb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.scylladb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.ScyllaDBApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20172015201420002019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ScalaCC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayes, Luanonono
Triggersnononoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenonenoneyes
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 nodesEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnonoyes
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IRONdbScyllaDBSpark SQLSQLiteTDengine
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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