DBMS > Altibase vs. Ehcache vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Ehcache vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2009

1993

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JCache

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Erlang

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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