DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. TDengine vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. TDengine vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

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

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.tdengine.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2013

1992

2013

2019

2003

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

3.0, August 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

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 and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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