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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

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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

Well established RDBMS

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.postgres-xl.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

11.2, May 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

Numeric data

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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