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DBMS > Altibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Time Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAltibaseSAP infoformerly SybaseMireoYanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release19991992202020152017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202317, July 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSpaceTimeYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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