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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Crate

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2010

1992

2018

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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