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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MarkLogic Corp.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Splice MachineSTS Soft SC
Initial release20172001198420142011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201811.0, December 20227.4.1.1, 20213.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL92yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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