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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. RavenDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

ravendb.net

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Exasol

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP, formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2010

1994

2018

Current release

5.4, July 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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