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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.tdengine.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1992

2020

2019

1998

1987

Current release

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

3.0, August 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

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