DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.exasol.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

SAP

SQream Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2000

2010

2017

2012

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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