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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ReductStore vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.reduct.store/docs

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

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2023

2006

Current release

11.2, May 2022

V12

1.9, March 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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