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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

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

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2004

1994

2013

2012

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

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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