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DBMS > Heroic vs. Linter vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Linter vs. MaxDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS for high security requirementsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroiclinter.rumaxdb.sap.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperSpotifyrelex.ruSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SADAS s.r.l.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20141990198420061993
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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