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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TypeDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TypeDB vs. YottaDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 simplicityWidely used in-process key-value storeTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmltypedb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmltypedb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleVaticleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2017199420162001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201818.1.40, May 20202.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesno
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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IRONdbOracle Berkeley DBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknYottaDB
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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