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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

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

Website

couchdb.apache.org

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

SAP, Sybase

STS Soft SC

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2005

1987

2011

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

16.0

4.0.8, September 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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