DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.42
Rank	#161	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2018

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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

.NET and C

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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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