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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Titan

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

origodb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

origodb.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Robert Friberg et al

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2017

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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