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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2007

2010

2014

1987

Current release

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

yes

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

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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