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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Well established RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Actian Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2004

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1994

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.2, May 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Ingres Replicator

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

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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