DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

quasardb

SAP

Initial release

2007

2009

2010

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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