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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperEsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152010201720142018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangC and C++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJavaScript APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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