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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.sequoiadb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1992

2013

2005

2011

Current release

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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