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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

7.4.1.1, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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