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DBMS > Graphite vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20061984201720172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC and C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Luanouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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