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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

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Name	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
			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	The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS with Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 35.09 Rank #25   Overall #17   Relational DBMS		Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	spotify.github.io/­heroic	help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
Developer	Spotify	SAP, Sybase	Sybase, SAP	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2014	1987	1993	2011
Current release		16.0		4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C and C++		C#
Server operating systems		AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Unix Windows	Linux Windows	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB Tabular Data Stream (TDS)	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages		C C++ Cobol Java Java Perl PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java and Transact-SQL	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Heroic	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	STSdb
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