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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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Name

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.sqream.com

Developer

SAP, Sybase

Mireo

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1987

2020

2017

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

16.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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)

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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