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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	4.68
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

SAP, Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

1987

1998

Current release

0.10, February 2024

16.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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