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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

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

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

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

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

8Kdata

Initial release

2005

2018

2017

2016

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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