DBMS > DataFS vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#201	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.mysql.com

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2005

1995

1993

2008

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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++

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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