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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.83
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	3.39
Rank	#77	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#103	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Altibase

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1999

2009

1994

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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