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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

surrealdb.com

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

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Sybase, SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2017

1993

2022

1998

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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