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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Tobias OetikerDwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SC
Initial release2017199920002011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.8.0, 20223.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxHP-UX
Linux
server-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client 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
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenonenone
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 nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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