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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2005201519871987
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 202216.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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