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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Badger  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP SQL Anywhere formerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.22 Rank #320   Overall #47   Key-value stores		Score 3.95 Rank #80   Overall #42   Relational DBMS	Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	github.com/­dgraph-io/­badger	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	godoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badger		help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	DGraph Labs	Sybase, SAP	SAP formerly Sybase	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2017	1993	1992	2011
Current release			17, July 2015	7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Go			C#
Server operating systems	BSD Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET HTTP API JDBC ODBC	.Net
Supported programming languages	Go	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Delphi Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication Database mirroring
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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