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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsql.js.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1992201220162018
Current release17, July 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access control

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