DBMS > Heroic vs. Interbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Interbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Spotify

Embarcadero

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

1984

1993

2010

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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