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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Time Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#366  Overall
#50  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#53  Key-value stores
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comarcadedb.comblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.arcadedb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperAltibaseArcade DataRackspaceFoundationDBSAP, Sybase
Initial release19992021201320131987
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023September 20216.2.28, November 202016.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language, no joinsnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoin SQL-layer onlyJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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