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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IRONdb vs. OpenSearch

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Name

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

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	17.19
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Search engines
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Circonus LLC.

The OpenSearch Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2017

2021

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.19, February 2025

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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