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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release2002201320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release4.01.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
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
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonoACID infoMVCC
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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