DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
Name	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial DBMS	Spatial DBMS with Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 35.09 Rank #25   Overall #17   Relational DBMS		Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE		docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer		SAP, Sybase	Sybase, SAP	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1987	1993	1998
Current release	10 R1, October 2018	16.0		11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) Database as a Service Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation language	C	C and C++
Server operating systems	Linux macOS	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Unix Windows	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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 XML type, but no XML query functionality	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB Tabular Data Stream (TDS)	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	C C++ Cobol Java Java Perl PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	Java and Transact-SQL	yes	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID MVCC	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information, and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.
Related products and services We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.
More resources
	Postgres-XL	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TimesTen
Recent citations in the news		Achieve zero RPO for your SAP ASE (Sybase) databases with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Amazon Web Services 7 May 2024, AWS Blog New Services for SAP HANA Cloud Database 7 April 2021, SAP News Patch SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise now to avoid takeover risk 3 June 2020, BleepingComputer AWS Launch Wizard is now available in Melbourne, Spain, and Zurich Regions 26 January 2024, AWS Blog Newly Patched SAP ASE Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Database Servers 3 June 2020, The Hacker News provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

Share this page