DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Tibero vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. Tibero vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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Description

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	103.35
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Score	1.46
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Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TmaxSoft

VoltDB Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1992

2000

2003

2010

2012

Current release

17, July 2015

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

7, September 2022

11.3, April 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Assembler

Java, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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