DBMS > IRONdb vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Circonus LLC.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

11.3.2, February 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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