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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	Altibase  Xexclude from comparison	Badger  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS	An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.02 Rank #189   Overall #88   Relational DBMS	Score 0.22 Rank #320   Overall #47   Key-value stores		Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #15   Vector DBMS
Website	altibase.com	github.com/­dgraph-io/­badger	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	github.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manuals	godoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badger
Developer	Altibase	DGraph Labs	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	1999	2017	1993	2023
Current release	v7.3, 2023, August 2023			1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Open source edition discontinued with March 2023	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Go		C++
Server operating systems	AIX HP-UX Linux	BSD Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	ANSI SQL-92	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C C++ Java	Go	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	stored procedures and stored functions	no	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	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	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	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.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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	Altibase	Badger	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp Hippo
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