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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2005

1987

2014

2016

Current release

16.0

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

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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