DBMS > SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Sqrrl vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Sqrrl vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqrrl.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1993

2010

2012

2016

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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