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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRDF storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrdf4j.orgrethinkdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Rockset
Initial release20172012200420092019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
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#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanoyesno
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding inforange basedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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