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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Actian Corporation

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TmaxSoft

Vaticle

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2001

2003

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

6, April 2015

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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