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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanavalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.SAPParadigma Software
Initial release20022014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20101999
Current release4.010 R1, October 20182.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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