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DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseSAP infoformerly SybaseSiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20131994199220102014
Current release8.11.4, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexernoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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