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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

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

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Codenotary

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2020

2017

2013

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

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

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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