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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kingbase vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

IBM

SAP

Initial release

2018

1999

2000

2010

Current release

0.10, February 2024

V8.0, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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