DBMS > ArangoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

sql.js.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2010

1992

2012

2015

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

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

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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