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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

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Name

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.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

newdatabase.com

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Mobiland AG

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2018

1992

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

17, July 2015

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

on the application server

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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