DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Initial release

2012

2008

1994

1987

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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