DBMS > Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2014

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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