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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#270	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	3.31
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#363	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1992

2012

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

yes

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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