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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	NSDb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Graph DBMS	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores	Score 0.08 Rank #369   Overall #40   Time Series DBMS
Website	galaxybase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	nsdb.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation			nsdb.io/­Architecture
Developer	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	Microsoft		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2017	2012	2017	1993
Current release	Nov 20, November 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C and Java		Java, Scala
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	Linux macOS	Linux Windows
Data scheme	Strong typed schema	schema-free		yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes: int, bigint, decimal, string	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	all fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	RESTful HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST WebSocket	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Go Java Python	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Java Scala	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined procedures and functions	no	no	yes
Triggers		no		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes Relationships in graphs	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	optimistic locking	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	Using Apache Lucene	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Role-based access control	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Galaxybase	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	NSDb	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news		Working with Azure to Use and Manage Data Lakes 7 March 2024, Simplilearn How to use Azure Table storage in .Net 14 January 2019, InfoWorld How to Use C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB 9 July 2021, hackernoon.com Inside Azure File Storage 7 October 2015, azure.microsoft.com How to write data to Azure Table Store with an Azure Function 14 April 2017, Experts Exchange provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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