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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#150  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#340  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.tarantool.ioterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.tarantool.io/­en/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseVKDataChemist Ltd.Transwarp
Initial release199220082018
Current release17, July 20152.10.0, May 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Graph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access controlyes

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