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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Esgyn

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

LeanXcale

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2014

1987

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Erlang

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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