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DBMS > IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SWC-DB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseplanetscale.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.complanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.PlanetScaleAlex Kashirin
Initial release2017201320202020
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaJava, SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyes infoTemporary tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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