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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#213  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.Tencent
Initial release2005199420142013
Current release3.4.2, February 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexeryesAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSAP/Sybase Replication ServeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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