DBMS > IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Sybase, SAP

Mireo

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2017

1993

2020

2015

2017

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

C#
C++
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

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

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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