DBMS > H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TimescaleDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TimescaleDB vs. Warp 10

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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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

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

www.snowflake.com

www.timescale.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.timescale.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Timescale

SenX

Initial release

2005

1994

2014

2017

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

based on HBase

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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, 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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