DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sequoiadb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

1993

2013

2022

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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