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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OceanBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

en.oceanbase.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

MonetDB BV

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Initial release

2004

2010

1993

2010

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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