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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SingleStore vs. Trafodion

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Name	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison	SingleStore former name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Trafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Description	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS	MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type	Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS with Boeing's Spatial Query Server	Document store Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.01 Rank #175   Overall #85   Relational DBMS	Score 46.67 Rank #25   Overall #17   Relational DBMS	Score 6.66 Rank #63   Overall #36   Relational DBMS	Score 0.43 Rank #254   Overall #120   Relational DBMS
Website	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	www.sap.com/­products/­sybase-ase.html	www.singlestore.com	trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentation		help.sap.com/­viewer/­product/­SAP_ASE	docs.singlestore.com	trafodion.apache.org
Developer	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	SAP, Sybase	SingleStore Inc.	Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release	2005	1987	2013	2014
Current release		16.0	7.6, November 2021	2.3.0, February 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	commercial free developer edition available	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C and C++	C++, Go	C++, Java
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Unix Windows	Linux 64 bit version required	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	yes but no triggers and foreign keys	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB Tabular Data Stream (TDS)	Cluster Management API as HTTP Rest and CLI HTTP API JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	C C++ Cobol Java Java Perl PHP Python	Bash C C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java and Transact-SQL	yes	Java Stored Procedures
Triggers	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	horizontal partitioning	Sharding hash partitioning	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes	yes, via HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations	yes via user defined functions and HBase
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	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		yes	no
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	Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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