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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Typesense

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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 simplicityA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/realm.iorocksdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sqltypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrealm.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Facebook, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20172014201320142015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.11.4, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynonono
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
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 nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnono

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