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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MaxDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-based data warehousing serviceA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperIBMSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SAP, Sybase
Initial release2016201419841987
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202416.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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