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System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Splice Machine  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
	SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 0.54 Rank #252   Overall #115   Relational DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	splicemachine.com	swaydb.simer.au	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation		splicemachine.com/­how-it-works		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Sybase, SAP	Splice Machine	Simer Plaha	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	1993	2014	2018	1987
Current release		3.1, March 2021		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source AGPL 3.0, commercial license available	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Scala	C and C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows		FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC Native Spark Datasource ODBC		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	Delphi Perl PHP	C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python R Scala	Java Kotlin Scala	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes Java	no	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	none	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	Yes, via Full Spark Integration	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	Atomic execution of operations	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes	yes	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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