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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. JanusGraph vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

janusgraph.org

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.janusgraph.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Actian Corporation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

quasardb

SAP

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2009

2010

Current release

11.2, May 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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