DBMS > IRONdb vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone vs. SQLite

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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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.pinecone.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Oushu

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2019

2000

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

4.0.1, August 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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)

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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++

Python

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

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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