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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. Qdrant vs. SAP IQ

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWell established RDBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingresqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActian CorporationQdrantSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20211994
Current release11.2, May 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptCRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatorCollection-level replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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