DBMS > Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EsgynDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

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

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#350	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#176	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS
	#12	Vector DBMS

Score	2.87
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Esgyn

ObjectBox Limited

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

1993

1992

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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