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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.61
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#372	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Actian Corporation

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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