DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Vaticle

Initial release

2012

1987

2000

1987

2016

Current release

16.0

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via raft

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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