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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere vs. Trafodion

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2015

2010

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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