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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#80  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score3.21
Rank#83  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#226  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperActian CorporationFacebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132017
Current release12.0, July 20249.4.0, June 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 availableno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
C++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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