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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2019

2010

1992

2018

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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