DBMS > Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1991

2016

2013

Current release

11.2, May 2022

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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