DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.exasol.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

SAP

SQream Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

2010

2017

2011

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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