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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. Tibero vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

STS Soft SC

TmaxSoft

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

2010

2011

2003

2001

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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