DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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

Description

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.sadasengine.com

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

spark.apache.org/sql

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

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

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

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

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2002

2006

1993

2014

2008

Current release

4.0

8.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

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++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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