DBMS > Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

1992

2011

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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