DBMS > H2 vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

nsdb.io

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

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Transwarp

Initial release

2005

2017

1987

2014

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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