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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trino.io

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Microsoft

SAP

Trino Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

1989

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2010

Current release

7.0, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

depending on connected data-source

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

SQL standard access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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15 May 2024

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7 May 2024

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4 April 2024

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