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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

1994

2013

2012

2022

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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