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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 simplicityOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/ravendb.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Hibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release2017201020092018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20185.4, July 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#ErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnonono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (RQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuayesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Securityno

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