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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. Trafodion vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.airethinkdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperCirconus LLC.quasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPRocket Software
Initial release20172009200920141985
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesoptional
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuanoJava Stored Proceduresyes
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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