DBMS > Altibase vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Altibase

Alachisoft

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1999

2005

2010

2013

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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