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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 simplicitySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/spark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2017201420172018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneSynchronous replication
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 nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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