DBMS > Citus vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

fauna.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.fauna.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2014

1991

2010

1994

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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