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DBMS > EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperExasolSAP, formerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000199420142011
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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EXASOLSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSpark SQLSTSdb
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