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

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

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 simplicityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release2017200920102018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesno
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 indexesnorestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
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 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 LuaErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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