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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sadasengine.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperActian CorporationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Snowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2009200620142019
Current release11.2, May 20223.2.0, December 20228.03.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCErlangC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factornoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
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