DBMS > EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

1993

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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