DBMS > Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Rockset

SAP, Sybase

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2019

1987

2010

1994

Current release

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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