DBMS > Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Kingbase vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Kinetica

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

LeanXcale

SAP

Yanza

Initial release

2012

1999

2015

2010

2015

Current release

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Java
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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