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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

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

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

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

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

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2002

1987

2008

Current release

4.0

16.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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