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

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Name

Description

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#230	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#109	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#279	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1993

1999

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

5.7.5

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

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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