DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2016

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

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

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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