DBMS > IRONdb vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.reduct.store/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

ReductStore LLC

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2023

1987

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.9, March 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

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

C and C++

C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
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

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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