DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

dgraph.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

dgraph.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2010

1992

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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 based on subaccounts and tokens

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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