DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Cognitect

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2023.3, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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