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DBMS > IRONdb vs. MonetDB vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. MonetDB vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Realm

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.monetdb.orgpouchdb.comquasar.airealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MonetDB BVApache Software FoundationquasardbRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20172004201220092014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
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
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayes, in SQL, C, RView functions in JavaScriptnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding via remote tablesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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