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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Rockset vs. TerminusDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comrockset.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comdocs.rockset.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCirconus LLC.KineticaRocksetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2017201220192018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesdynamic typingyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingAutomatic shardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole-based access control

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