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DBMS > Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAltibaseSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release19992016199220142011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202317, July 20153.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonScalaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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