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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comkx.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsurrealdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscode.kx.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP infoformerly SybaseSurrealDB LtdQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19992000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003199220222009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.6, May 201817, July 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (q)yesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseKdbSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSurrealDBYaacomo
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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