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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. DuckDB vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

cachelot.io

duckdb.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

duckdb.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2015

2018

2017

Current release

0.10, February 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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