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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Oracle

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

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2017

1992

1998

2020

Current release

17, July 2015

Release 22.1

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
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
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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