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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Solr 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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2015

2006

2000

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.6.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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