DBMS > Altibase vs. BaseX vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

basex.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.basex.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Altibase

BaseX GmbH

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Yandex

Initial release

1999

2007

2013

1992

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, June 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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