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System Properties Comparison SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

SAP, Sybase

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1987

1994

2013

2019

Current release

16.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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