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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 transactionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaserealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.comrealm.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20172013201420111998
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0.8, September 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaJava, SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
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/writtennonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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