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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

orientdb.org

quasar.ai

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

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2009

1992

2000

1987

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

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

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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