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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FatCloud

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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