DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

typedb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typedb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Vaticle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1992

2014

2012

2016

2011

Current release

17, July 2015

2.28.3, June 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Based on Windows Authentication

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