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Name

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.22
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2017

2005

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3.2, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP 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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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