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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuidevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseTeradataVelocityDB IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1992200520112013
Current release17, July 20157.x15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NetADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlR packagesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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