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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

www.sqlite.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2011

2000

2017

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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