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DBMS > Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, SybaseTimescaleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009198720172014
Current release3.2.0, December 202216.02.15.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangJava and Transact-SQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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