DBMS > EXASOL vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.h2database.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Exasol

Thomas Mueller

Manticore Software

SAP

Initial release

2000

2005

2017

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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