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DBMS > Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#84  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#261  Overall
#122  Relational DBMS
Score3.24
Rank#81  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iomaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikimaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, IncSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2013198420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1992
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202410 R1, October 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine 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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