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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spatial extension of SQLite

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Spotify

OpenNMS Group

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

1993

2008

2020

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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