DBMS > BigchainDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TimesTen vs. Virtuoso

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TimesTen vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	3.99
Rank	#75	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#40	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2016

2010

1994

1998

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Release 22.1

7.2.11, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

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

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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