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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Altibase

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1999

2010

2012

1999

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

commercial

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++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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