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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comgeode.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgeode.apache.org/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAltibaseOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Boiler Bay Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19992002200219922016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 20174.017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (OQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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