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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.68
Rank	#87	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#376	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

siridb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/iq

docs.siridb.com

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Initial release

1994

2017

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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