DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

linter.ru

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

relex.ru

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2010

1990

2010

1992

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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