DBMS > Kingbase vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.37
Rank	#265	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	24.64
Rank	#33	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	54.96
Rank	#21	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	55.78
Rank	#20	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#194	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

lucene.apache.org/solr

vaticle.com

Technical documentation

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html

docs.vaticle.com

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Vaticle (formerly Grakn Labs)

Initial release

1999

2003

2010

2006

2016

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

1.6.15, March 2022

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

9.0.0, May 2022

2.11.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Complete database management platform with Integrated Development Environment Tool,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional and mixed workloads that need to integrate with...
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Key customers

The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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Licensing and pricing models

Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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AGPL and Commercial . The commercial license is priced based on cluster resources...
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