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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name	Kingbase  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison	Valentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage	Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.50 Rank #257   Overall #119   Relational DBMS		Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores	Score 0.21 Rank #325   Overall #144   Relational DBMS
Website	www.kingbase.com.cn	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	swaydb.simer.au	www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentation				valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer	BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.	Sybase, SAP	Simer Plaha	Paradigma Software
Initial release	1999	1993	2018	1999
Current release	V8.0, August 2021			5.7.5
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C and Java		Scala
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux Windows		Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	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.	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET gokb JDBC kdbndp ODBC PDI PDO Pro*C psycopg2 QT	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB		ODBC
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	Java Kotlin Scala	.Net C C# C++ Objective-C PHP Ruby Visual Basic Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	yes	no	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	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.		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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