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DBMS > BigObject vs. IRONdb vs. PostgreSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IRONdb vs. PostgreSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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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

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.postgresql.org/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Circonus LLC.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2017

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2004

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C and C++

C

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes

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.

no

no

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

yes

standard with numerous extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript 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
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

no

Triggers

no

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

ACID

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

no

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