DBMS > FatDB vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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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

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

Well established RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sadasengine.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

FatCloud

Actian Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2006

2014

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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