DBMS > IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RRDtool

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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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Manticore Software

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2017

1994

1999

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0, February 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

Numeric data only

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.

Can index from XML

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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