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DBMS > Altibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAltibaseSAP infoformerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbHTranswarp
Initial release1999199220181987
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202317, July 201511.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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