DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

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

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

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

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

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

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

1987

1993

1992

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

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

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

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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