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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Alachisoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2017

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role based authorization

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Typical application scenarios

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