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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.h2gis.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Altibase

CNRS

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2013

2018

1992

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.8, December 2018

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

based on H2

functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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