DBMS > MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

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

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

SAP

Tencent

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

2010

2013

1998

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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.

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

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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