DBMS > SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sql.js.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

2010

1992

2012

2005

2015

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

R packages

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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