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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Altibase

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1999

2014

2009

1994

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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