DBMS > H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

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

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP, Sybase

SAP

SiteWhere

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

1987

2010

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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