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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperEsgynApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20152012201720122004
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonono

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