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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Open-source TimeSeries DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#341	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#102	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	8.01
Rank	#55	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

maxdb.sap.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Circonus LLC.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2017

1984

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.9.10 (January 2020), 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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