DBMS > Altibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Elastic

SAP

TmaxSoft

Yanza

Initial release

1999

2010

2003

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.6, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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