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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

orientdb.org

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

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

1994

2000

2001

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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