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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.Tobias OetikerSimer Plaha
Initial release20172017201519992018
Current release2022, May 2022V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
LinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.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
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnono

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