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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Google

MonetDB BV

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2020

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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