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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. HarperDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Primary database model

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	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.harperdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

HarperDB

SAP

Initial release

1999

2015

2017

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

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