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Name

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Description

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2006

2000

2009

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.6.0, April 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC

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
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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