DBMS > SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

siridb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trafodion.apache.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1994

2017

1998

2014

2018

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.3.0, February 2019

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Java Stored Procedures

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

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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