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System Properties Comparison Apache Spark (SQL) vs. SAP HANA

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NameApache Spark (SQL)  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score21.62
Rank#29  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score32.01
Rank#24  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSAP
Initial release20142010
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark Coreyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes

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