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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#255  Overall
#37  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.88
Rank#99  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#87  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­agershun/­alasqlwww.dolphindb.com/­helphelp.sap.com/­iq
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDolphinDB, IncSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release201420181994
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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