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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

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Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
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Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

jsqldb.org (offline)

realm.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Konrad von Backstrom

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

2014

2013

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.8, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

C++ API
Java 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

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

functions in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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