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DBMS > Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
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Score37.12
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.Paradigma Software
Initial release2008198720181999
Current release7.2.4, September 201216.011.0.0, January 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava and Transact-SQLyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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