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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen Source Time Series DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/siridb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.siridb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.CesbitSiteWhere
Initial release20002010201720172010
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.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
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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