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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. Ingres vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tibero

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Well established RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#122  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#143  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseEnterpriseDBActian CorporationSAP infoformerly SybaseTmaxSoft
Initial release199920051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19922003
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202314, December 202111.2, May 202217, July 20156, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC and Assembler
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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