DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Blueflood vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Well established RDBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

blueflood.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

1992

Current release

2.1, December 2018

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

predefined 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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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