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DBMS > IRONdb vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 simplicityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.searchxml.net/­category/­productssql.js.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.informationpartners gmbhAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2017201520122016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java 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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnonenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnono

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