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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. JaguarDB vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2015

1984

2006

1994

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3 July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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