DBMS > Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2010

1994

2020

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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