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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP, Sybase

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2005

1987

1994

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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