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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TiDB vs. VoltDB vs. XTDB

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlpingcap.comwww.voltdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.voltdb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybasePingCAP, Inc.VoltDB Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release1992201620102019
Current release17, July 20158.1.0, May 202411.3, April 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGo, RustJava, C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlnoJavano
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infofull support since version 6.6no infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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SAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTiDBVoltDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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