DBMS > OpenEdge vs. SAP IQ vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. SAP IQ vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

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

www.scylladb.com

www.snowflake.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

1984

1994

2015

2014

2012

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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