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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

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Name	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	NSDb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores	Score 0.08 Rank #369   Overall #40   Time Series DBMS		Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	nsdb.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation		nsdb.io/­Architecture		docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Microsoft		Sybase, SAP	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2012	2017	1993	1998
Current release				11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java, Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux macOS	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	schema-free		yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes: int, bigint, decimal, string	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	all fields are automatically indexed	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST WebSocket	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Java Scala	Delphi Perl PHP	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	PL/SQL
Triggers	no		yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
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	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	optimistic locking	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Using Apache Lucene	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	NSDb	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TimesTen
Recent citations in the news	Working with Azure to Use and Manage Data Lakes 7 March 2024, Simplilearn How to use Azure Table storage in .Net 14 January 2019, InfoWorld How to Use C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB 9 July 2021, hackernoon.com How to write data to Azure Table Store with an Azure Function 14 April 2017, Experts Exchange Inside Azure File Storage 7 October 2015, azure.microsoft.com provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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