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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. SurrealDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, IncSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201720192022
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, 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.nono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Lua
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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