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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Stardog vs. Ultipa

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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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

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

www.stardog.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.stardog.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

SAP, Sybase

Stardog-Union

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1987

2010

2019

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

16.0

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

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)

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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