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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverpouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverpouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­hanaterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationSAPDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20171989201220102018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018SQL Server 2022, November 20227.1.1, June 20192.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaView functions in JavaScriptSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesRole-based access control

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