DBMS > Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Kinetica

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

1994

2010

1992

2001

Current release

7.1, August 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes

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

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

optimistic locking

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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