DBMS > SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Sybase, SAP

SiteWhere

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Initial release

1993

2010

2020

2005

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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