DBMS > SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1993

2010

2008

2010

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

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

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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