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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	Riak TS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores	Score 0.28 Rank #307   Overall #27   Time Series DBMS
Website	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables		www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation			www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
Developer	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	Microsoft	Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2005	2012	2015	1993
Current release			3.0.0, September 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C		Erlang
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux OS X	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	no	restricted	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes, limited	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	C unofficial client library C# C++ unofficial client library Clojure unofficial client library Dart unofficial client library Erlang Go unofficial client library Groovy unofficial client library Haskell unofficial client library Java JavaScript unofficial client library Lisp unofficial client library Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby Scala unofficial client library Smalltalk unofficial client library	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Erlang	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no links between datasets can be stored	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	optimistic locking	no	ACID
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.	yes	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Infobright	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	Riak TS	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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