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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Infobright vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.citusdata.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2005

1987

2011

Current release

8.1, December 2018

16.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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