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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. OpenQM vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Well established RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

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

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1993

1994

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

3.4-12

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

with some exceptions

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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