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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	Quasardb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Distributed, high-performance timeseries database	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.21 Rank #322   Overall #29   Time Series DBMS
Website	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	www.postgres-xl.org	quasar.ai	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	doc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.		quasardb	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2005	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	2009	1993
Current release		10 R1, October 2018	3.14.1, January 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C	C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux macOS	BSD Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes integer and binary	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	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no	no
Secondary indexes	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes	yes with tags	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	HTTP API	.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++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	.Net C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python R	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	horizontal partitioning	Sharding consistent hashing	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication		Source-replica replication with 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	with Hadoop integration	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID MVCC	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes by using LevelDB	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	yes Transient mode	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	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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