DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

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

Description

In-memory caching system

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

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

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

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

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

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2017

2004

2010

1987

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free development license

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++

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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