DBMS > NSDb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	41.47
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.teradata.com

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2010

1992

1984

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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