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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Spotify

Google

SAP

Initial release

1999

2014

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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