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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.compouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.compouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectApache Software FoundationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release19992012201219922009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.7075, December 20237.1.1, June 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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