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DBMS > Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperActian CorporationCirconus LLC.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splice MachineSTS Soft SC
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017198420142011
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.4.1.1, 20213.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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