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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. jBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	DuckDB  Xexclude from comparison	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 4.63 Rank #69   Overall #37   Relational DBMS	Score 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	duckdb.org	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	duckdb.org/­docs	docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
Developer	Alibaba		Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		2018	1991	1993
Current release		1.0.0, June 2024	5.7
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source MIT License	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less	AIX Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	optional	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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) CLI Client JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	C C# 3rd party driver C++ Crystal 3rd party driver Go 3rd party driver Java Lisp 3rd party driver Python R Ruby 3rd party driver Rust Swift Zig 3rd party driver	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	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	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	DuckDB	jBASE	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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