DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.monetdb.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

MonetDB BV

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SAP

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2004

2010

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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