DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

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

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.exasol.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

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

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Circonus LLC.

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2010

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

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