DBMS > EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Exasol

SAP

Mireo

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2000

2010

2020

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

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++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

yes

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