DBMS > NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

column-oriented

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	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

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

spark.apache.org/sql

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

1994

2014

2012

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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