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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Stardog vs. Tarantool vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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 storeEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.scylladb.comwww.stardog.comwww.tarantool.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.scylladb.comdocs.stardog.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.ScyllaDBStardog-UnionVKTranswarp
Initial release2017201520102008
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20247.3.0, May 20202.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Open binary protocolOpenCypher
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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayes, Luauser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
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
Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yes
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbScyllaDBStardogTarantoolTranswarp StellarDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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