DBMS > EXASOL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

planetscale.com

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

planetscale.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Exasol

Oracle

PlanetScale

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2000

2011

2020

2012

2010

Current release

23.3, December 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Docker
Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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