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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Spatial extension of SQLite

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2002

1992

2008

2012

Current release

4.0

17, July 2015

5.0.0, August 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

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
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

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