DBMS > SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

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

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

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

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

Developer

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1987

2010

2014

2009

Current release

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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