DBMS > LevelDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2011

2009

1987

2010

2018

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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