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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

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Name	NSDb  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Coherence  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	Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes	Oracles in-memory data grid solution	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.08 Rank #369   Overall #40   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.97 Rank #129   Overall #22   Key-value stores		Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	nsdb.io	www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	nsdb.io/­Architecture	docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence		docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer		Oracle	Sybase, SAP	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2017	2007	1993	1998
Current release		14.1, August 2023		11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java, Scala	Java
Server operating systems	Linux macOS	All OS with a Java VM	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: int, bigint, decimal, string	yes	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	all fields are automatically indexed	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	gRPC HTTP REST WebSocket	JCache JPA RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	Java Scala	.Net C++ Java	Delphi Perl PHP	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	PL/SQL
Triggers		yes Live Events	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes, with selectable consistency level	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	Eventual Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate 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	no	configurable	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	Using Apache Lucene	yes optionally	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.		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control		authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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