DBMS > HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2001

2017

2006

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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