DBMS > GridGain vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

sql.js.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2010

1992

2012

2015

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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