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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

splicemachine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Machbase

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Splice Machine

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2013

1984

2014

2011

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.1, March 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.NET Client 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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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