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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20022013200320132017
Current release4.01.2.2, November 20181.6.25, March 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnonoyes, 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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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