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DBMS > IRONdb vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. SQLite vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 simplicityWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sqlite.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Dwayne Richard HippSTS Soft SC
Initial release2017200020112023
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20244.0.8, September 20151.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessWindowsLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)Vector, Numeric and String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
.NET Client APIRESTful 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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenoneSharding
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 integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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