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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SAP, SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19841987201220182011
Current release7.4.1.1, 202116.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptScalaC#
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava and Transact-SQLnonono
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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