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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog 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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

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

www.stardog.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

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

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Actian Corporation

SAP

Stardog-Union

TmaxSoft

Vaticle

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2003

2016

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

6, April 2015

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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

Java

C and Assembler

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

none

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

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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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