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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone vs. Spark SQL

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.pinecone.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OushuPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release201720192014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0.1, August 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
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++
PythonJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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