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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Well established RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sadasengine.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Codenotary

Actian Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

informationpartners gmbh

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2020

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2006

2015

2005

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

11.2, May 2022

8.0

1.0

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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