DBMS > IRONdb vs. ITTIA vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ITTIA vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

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

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ittia.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2007

2000

1987

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.7

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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