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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquasar.aisql.js.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OraclequasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172011200920122014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201824.1, May 20243.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++JavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionalyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuanononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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