DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#61	Key-value stores

Score	6.70
Rank	#52	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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	#41	Time Series DBMS

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	#41	Time Series DBMS

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	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opennms.github.io/newts

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2002

2000

2014

2017

2020

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

Numeric data

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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