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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. etcd vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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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 distributed reliable key-value store

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Altibase

Google

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1999

2010

1993

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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