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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

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

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

origodb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

kairosdb.github.io

origodb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Circonus LLC.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2010

2017

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

Role based authorization

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