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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. Newts

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Name

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

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

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

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

InterSystems

Circonus LLC.

Google

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

.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

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

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