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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

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Name	BigObject  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	XTDB formerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS		Score 3.95 Rank #80   Overall #42   Relational DBMS	Score 0.18 Rank #332   Overall #46   Document stores
Website	bigobject.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html	github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb www.xtdb.com
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io		help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere	www.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	Sybase, SAP	SAP formerly Sybase	Juxt Ltd.
Initial release	2015	1993	1992	2019
Current release			17, July 2015	1.19, September 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	commercial	commercial	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language				Clojure
Server operating systems	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes, extensible-data-notation format
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	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	yes	limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET HTTP API JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST JDBC
Supported programming languages		Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Delphi Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	Clojure Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua	yes	yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none	none
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	yes, each node contains all data
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	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 Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	BigObject	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SAP SQL Anywhere formerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere	XTDB formerly named Crux
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