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System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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NameSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperSybase, SAPApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release1993200620182016
Current release9.5.0, February 202411.0.0, January 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesDelphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava pluginsyesno
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yesJournaling StreamsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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SAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSSolrTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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