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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Sybase, SAP

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

1993

2010

2022

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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