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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitymSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCirconus LLC.Hughes TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20132008201719942010
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++CJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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