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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Splice Machine vs. TimesTen vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1029.49
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	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

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

splicemachine.com

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Splice Machine

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

SenX

Initial release

1995

1987

2014

1998

2015

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

16.0

3.1, March 2021

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Java

PL/SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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