DBMS > IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Yanza

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Name

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

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza 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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yanza

Initial release

2017

1993

2014

2000

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

via file-system locks

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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