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DBMS > Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. Tigris

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.iowww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Circonus LLC.Pinecone Systems, IncTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2005201720192022
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful 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
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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