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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

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

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

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

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

1984

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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