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DBMS > IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.nettempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release20172014201320052012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP 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
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple authentication-based access control

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