DBMS > Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

1987

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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