DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

nsdb.io

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

spark.apache.org/sql

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2017

1994

2014

2009

Current release

V12

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, utilizing Spark Core

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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