DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. Realm

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Name

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

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	14.07
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores
	#17	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#208	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	7.05
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.jaguardb.com

rdf4j.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Circonus LLC.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2004

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.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
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in Lua

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

yes

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