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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. IRONdb vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

duckdb.org

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

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

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

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2017

2010

2018

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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++

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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