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DBMS > Axibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB vs. YottaDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuideyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSAP infoformerly SybaseTeradataVelocityDB IncYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20131992200520112001
Current release1558517, July 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NETDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesno
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.noyesyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NetPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
.NetC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlR packagesno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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