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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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Name

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

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2000

2017

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

8.5, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, Go

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
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

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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