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DBMS > IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 simplicityLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.ioqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2017201720212004
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++RustJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary native APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineCollection-level replicationnone
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, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesKey-based authenticationno
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