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

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#340	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

1992

2018

1987

Current release

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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