DBMS > IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2009

1994

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

yes

integer and binary

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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