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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

machbase.com

realm.io

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

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Machbase

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2013

2014

1994

Current release

0.10, February 2024

V8.0, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

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

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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