DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	MaxDB formerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame  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	A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions	RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	RDF store	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 2.26 Rank #114   Overall #55   Relational DBMS	Score 0.74 Rank #222   Overall #9   RDF stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	maxdb.sap.com	rdf4j.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	maxdb.sap.com/­documentation	rdf4j.org/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba	SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997	Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		1984	2004	1993
Current release		7.9.10.12, February 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Limited community edition free	Open Source Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows	Linux OS X Unix Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes RDF Schemas	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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		no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC WebDAV	Java API RIO RDF Input/Output Sail API SeRQL Sesame RDF Query Language Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net C# Java Perl PHP Python	Java PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	none	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	yes		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID Isolation support depends on the API used	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes in-memory storage is supported as well	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	MaxDB formerly named Adabas-D	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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