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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Kdb vs. PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comkx.compouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscode.kx.compouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAltibaseKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcApache Software FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19992000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201219922009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.6, May 20187.1.1, June 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (q)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseKdbPouchDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereYaacomo
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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