DBMS > chDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Embarcadero

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2023

1984

2010

1992

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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