DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. IRONdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. IRONdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

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

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Circonus LLC.

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2010

1994

1992

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

SQLScript, R

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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