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System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

quasar.ai

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

IBM

quasardb

Mireo

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2000

2009

2020

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using LevelDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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