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DBMS > IRONdb vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 simplicityTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/typedb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtypedb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.VaticleJuxt Ltd.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2017201620192001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.26.3, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaClojureC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
HTTP REST
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoby using Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandrayes, each node contains all datayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeepernono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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IRONdbTypeDB infoformerly named GraknXTDB infoformerly named CruxYottaDB
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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