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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus vs. XTDB

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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 cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.openpie.com

prometheus.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Circonus LLC.

OpenPie

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2015

2019

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

Numeric data only

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

by Federation

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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