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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB

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Name

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

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

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

janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2017

2004

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.0.0, October 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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