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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Ehcache vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ehcache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Codenotary

SAP

Initial release

1999

2009

2020

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

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; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JCache

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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