DBMS > GigaSpaces vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

LeanXcale

SAP

formerly Sybase

SenX

Initial release

2000

2015

2010

1992

2015

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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