DBMS > JaguarDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

1994

2014

2010

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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