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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperRackspaceCirconus LLC.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2013201720142000
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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