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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Mobiland AG

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2018

2010

2006

2009

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

yes

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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