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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Rocket Software

Initial release

2017

2013

2015

1985

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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