DBMS > Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

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

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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 hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Spotify

Circonus LLC.

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

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2017

2004

2010

1984

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

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

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.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++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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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