DBMS > IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Google

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2017

2014

2010

1999

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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