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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

kylin.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

1999

2015

2014

2010

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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