DBMS > IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

postgis.net

siridb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Cesbit

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

1995

2005

2017

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

Numeric data

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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