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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#80	Overall
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Rank	#380	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Actian Corporation

Oushu

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

12.0, July 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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