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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.scylladb.com

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1994

2015

2014

2012

Current release

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

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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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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