DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. SurrealDB

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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

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

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

SAP

ScyllaDB

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1999

2016

2010

2015

2022

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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