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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 simplicityA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score7.70
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/realm.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrealm.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Facebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172014201319922014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.10.0, December 202317, July 20153.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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