DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

McObject

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2001

2015

2010

2018

1987

Current release

8.2, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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