DBMS > Hazelcast vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

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

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hazelcast

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1992

2014

2011

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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