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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.commaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2002198420091994
Current release4.07.9.10.12, February 20243.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangyes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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