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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Warp 10

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Rocket Software

SenX

Initial release

2017

1989

1985

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

optional

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.

yes

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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