DBMS > Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite vs. StarRocks

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

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

www.sqlite.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

quasardb

Sybase, SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2015

2009

1993

2000

2020

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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