DBMS > Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.heavy.ai

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SAP

Mireo

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2010

2016

2010

2020

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++ and CUDA

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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