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DBMS > PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn 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.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score32.67
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2005198720181998
Current release3.4.2, February 202416.011.0.0, January 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava and Transact-SQLyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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