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DBMS > Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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NameOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud servicea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsqream.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasehelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperOracleSAPSQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPParadigma Software
Initial release19802010201720141999
Current release23c, September 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20232022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleSQLScript, Ruser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be realized in PL/SQLnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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