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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.CesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20202017201520172001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationyesnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsno

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