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System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.77
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#136	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1992

1998

Current release

17, July 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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