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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
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Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.iopouchdb.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, IncApache Software FoundationFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2017201920122013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 20199.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, Number, Booleannono
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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