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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone vs. Ultipa

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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 simplicityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.iowww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, IncUltipa
Initial release2017198420192019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMShosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP 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
PythonC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Lua
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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