DBMS > Galaxybase vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

SAP

ScyllaDB

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2010

2015

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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