DBMS > Altibase vs. HugeGraph vs. Informix vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HugeGraph vs. Informix vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Baidu

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2018

1984

2010

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9

14.10.FC5, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

yes

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