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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Transaction Software GmbH

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2005

1987

2009

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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