DBMS > EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Well established RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

FatCloud

Actian Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1994

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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