DBMS > Newts vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

OpenNMS Group

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

1994

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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