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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2011

2010

2022

Current release

23.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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