DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

typesense.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

1992

2014

2015

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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