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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Speedb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Solr vs. Spark SQL vs. Speedb vs. Transbase

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 simplicityA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/solr.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.speedb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSpeedbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172006201420201987
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20189.6.0, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Solr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaJava pluginsnonoyes
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingnoyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbSolrSpark SQLSpeedbTransbase
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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