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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.comwww.timescale.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.timescale.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.TimescaleParadigma Software
Initial release19922018201820171999
Current release17, July 201511.0.0, January 20232.13.0, November 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, RustC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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