DBMS > GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

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

www.sequoiadb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2014

1994

2013

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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