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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. SAP IQ vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

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

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1995

1994

2018

2011

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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