DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.esgyn.cn

greenplum.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Esgyn

Pivotal Software Inc.

Sybase, SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

1993

2011

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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