DBMS > SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	50.84
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.29
Rank	#90	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#302	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

1994

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS06 (March 4, 2022), March 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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