DBMS > Altibase vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

geospock.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

GeoSpock

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

Initial release

1999

1995

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0, September 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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