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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud servicePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­hanasql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201320102012
Current release10 R1, October 20189.2.1, May 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
LinuxAppliance or cloud-serviceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno

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