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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1994

2020

2011

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

0.5, April 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 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

Based on Windows Authentication

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