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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseMireoAlessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release1992202020082011
Current release17, July 20155.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-lessWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono

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