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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbrocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.PerconaFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2017201520132000
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4.10-2.10, November 20178.11.4, April 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial 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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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 infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaJavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyes infovia In-Memory Engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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