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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#340  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsql.js.orgterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release199220122018
Current release17, July 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlyes

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