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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Speedb vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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Trend Chart

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.speedb.io

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Speedb

Tencent

Initial release

1995

2010

1992

2020

2013

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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