DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.40
Rank	#249	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#273	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	53.44
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#127	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.92
Rank	#179	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

esgyn.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.stardog.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

esgyn.com/developers

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

SAP

Stardog-Union

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

2.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

depending on used data model

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Hash and Range Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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