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DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#362  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Sybase, SAPSAP infoformerly SybaseTimescaleTranswarp
Initial release2013199319922017
Current release9.4.0, June 202417, July 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, 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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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