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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

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

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2015

2017

2015

1994

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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