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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mireo

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

8Kdata

Initial release

1994

2020

2011

2018

2016

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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