DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Greenplum vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Greenplum vs. SAP HANA

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

greenplum.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.greenplum.org

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Pivotal Software Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1999

2017

2016

2005

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

7.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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