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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2017

2013

2015

2010

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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