DBMS > mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Hughes Technologies

SAP

Simer Plaha

Yanza

Initial release

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

2018

2015

Current release

4.4, October 2021

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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