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DBMS > IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.netswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Simer Plaha
Initial release2017200520182009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APITinkerPop 3
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
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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