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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2013

2010

2018

2005

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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