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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Circonus LLC.

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2009

2017

2014

2015

1999

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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