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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
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Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/realm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2017201420112022
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0.8, September 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
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 integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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