DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

siridb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2008

2010

1992

2017

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

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

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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