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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.enterprisedb.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

EnterpriseDB

Hyprcubd, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2005

1994

Current release

14, December 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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