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DBMS > IRONdb vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 simplicityOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.alachisoft.com/­ncacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.AlachisoftTobias OetikerAlex Kashirin
Initial release2017200519992020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20185.3.3, April 20241.8.0, 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-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.noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbNCacheRRDtoolSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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