DBMS > MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

1995

1984

1987

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source 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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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